Unrstandg Homonatnalism: Why Are There Gay People Supportg Tmp? | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• WHE NATNALIST GROUPS ARE SPLTG OVER GAY INCLN
• HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM
• A WHE GAY MALE FACTN OF WHE NATNALISM IS RISG AND NO, THAT’S NOT A JOKE
• UNRSTANDG HOMONATNALISM: WHY ARE THERE GAY PEOPLE SUPPORTG TMP?
• WHE NATNALIST WH GAY FATHER BOOTED FROM HOME OVER ATTEMPTED PRI RT

WHE NATNALIST GROUPS ARE SPLTG OVER GAY INCLN

A week ago, members of another whe supremacist group, Patrt Front, were arrted before, thori allege, vlently disptg a gay pri event Cor d'Alene, Idaho.

And the other one we need to put on that list is seemgly dividual acts of vlence that rult mass sualti agast targeted populatns, like the one we jt saw Buffalo, but that we've also seen El Paso and Charlton and groups see gay rights, immigratn, terracial ntact, and pecially the birth of terracial children, femism as all beg a problem bee they believe that those thgs will unrme the whe birthrate. But if you say, I don't want my kids - I'm worried about my kids beg around gay people or around drag performers, there's this whole kd of movement that allows that type of nversatn to happen or feels like this kd of nversatn is OK to happen. And this kd of opportunistic mobilizatn is very well-practiced and is somethg that they have been workg wh for a very long So seems like there's a reason that they are choosg to foc on, say, drag queens or trans people over, say, you know, jt a proment gay person like Neil Patrick Harris - or they are choosg to kd of foc on this very margalized Y.

HOW THE ALT-RIGHT IS USG SEX AND CAMP TO ATTRACT GAY MEN TO FASCISM

One major flt le has emerged over homosexualy: While fascist and whe natnalist movements have historilly nmned queerns, many the self-scribed “alt-right” wanted to dash this image, acknowledgg that the social mood had shifted on gay issu and that they had a number of homosexual members their ranks.

Over the summer months, as whe natnalists and fascists who rallied unr the banner of the “alt-right” were repudiated by their more mastream unterparts at plac like Rebel Media, a fal pture began to take place between those who cid to clu gay fascists their ranks and lears who termed this to be the hill they wanted to die on. It wasn’t until Hill saw the rt of the Natnal Policy Instute nference lp that his characteristic rage kicked , censed by the cln of another speaker: Jack Donovan, a “masculist” and an open homosexual. Both are te the se of attus toward homosexualy wh the aln between the openly whe natnalist “alt-right” and the “alt-le, ” which tends to publicly downplay s support for whe supremacy per se while spreadg anti-immigrant, anti-Mlim and anti-femist sentiments.

While self-scribed members of the “alt-right” have certaly never put same-sex relatnships on the same ground as heterosexual on — primarily bee of their belief the sancty of the “tradnal” fay un — they haven’t treated gay people entirely as outsirs eher. Spencer has often argued for a place for homosexual men their movement, prentg a radil versn of the “born this way” this that follows antiquated Soviet rearch suggtg that homosexualy is the rult of a ficient prenatal “ttosterone bath. Donovan was first known for wrg the book Androphilia (unr the name Jack Malebranche), where he argued that as a man attracted to other men, he was not actually “gay, ” as that was a morn chosen inty that also aligned self wh “male effemacy, ” femism and leftist polics.

A WHE GAY MALE FACTN OF WHE NATNALISM IS RISG AND NO, THAT’S NOT A JOKE

Donovan has argued publicly agast gay stutns like same-sex marriage, stead suggtg that male-attracted men should “go their own way, ” and fai should be limed to the tradnal heterosexual ntext. Meanwhile he lifts up whe homosexual masculy — which he portrays as associated wh theatre and high arts — as the ialized oppose of the anti-Black stereotyp that he prents. Milo Yiannopoulos and Gays for Tmp add another dimensn to this, seekg to jtify anti-Mlim immigratn rtrictn by potg to the mass shootg at the Pulse nightclub and argug that Mlim groups persecute gay people.

In 2014, he banned Matthew Heimbach, founr of the Tradnalist Worker Party and Tradnalist Youth Network, om attendg that year’s Natnal Policy Instute nference after alleged ments that Heimbach and Stt Terry ma about the “biblil” rponsibily of executg homosexuals for their ss.

Heimbach had been known to be iendly wh Donovan, cludg askg him a qutn at Donovan’s 2014 speech at Amerin Renaissance, but Spencer was not gog to allow for this kd of vlent homophobia or the negative media spectacle Heimbach has ma for himself. “It’s not bee I was tryg to supprs anti-homosexual views, ” said Spencer on the Rebel Yell Southern Natnalist podst, fendg himself about the banng of Heimbach.

UNRSTANDG HOMONATNALISM: WHY ARE THERE GAY PEOPLE SUPPORTG TMP?

As Nathan Damigo, the founr of Inty Evropa, told me last year while planng a seri of mp actns, gay men would be allowed if they kept their sexual orientatn off the radar, but transgenr people would be turned away and directed toward mental health servic. The Proud Boys, another whe natnalist group that has brand self as a slightly more morate “Wtern chvist” group, has been more open allowg gay and transgenr members, as long as they believe Wtern superry.

WHE NATNALIST WH GAY FATHER BOOTED FROM HOME OVER ATTEMPTED PRI RT

For both Spencer and Johnson this halfway support has e at a st, wh many the more orthodox sectors of the whe natnalist right accg them of beg homosexual themselv. After the accatns were ma agast both Spencer and Johnson, Spencer tried to put the spotlight more exclively on Johnson by postg the same article and speech that had been available for years which Johnson argu that homophobia was a social opprsn created by Jews. Matt Forney — a Manosphere blogger associated wh the Manosphere webse Return of Kgs who had moved on to whe natnalist media outlets like Amerin Renaissance and Red Ice Creatns, which foc on race rather than genr — then put out a large list of accatns about whe natnalist figur who had allegedly engaged homosexual behavrs.

This clud gog after The Right Stuff, one of the most popular whe natnalist blogs known for s podst, “The Daily Shoah, ” accg them of havg a “si group” lled “Fashy Faggots, ” intifyg Greg Johnson as a llaborator, and the alleged homosexualy of other mentators. Cg that blog, Occintal Dissent acced Cernovich of payg for sex wh “lady boys” other untri and then suggted that this is related to the fact that Cernovich has ma tepid fens for some gay whe natnalists over the years. As whe natnalists wh the self-scribed “alt-right” ntue to e homophobia to ga clout durg their movement’s ternal power stggl, be clear that the majory of people the movement believe both homosexual attractn and genr nonnformy to be social diseas rrodg the proper “Wtern” orr of society.

Even if they have back-seated the views out of an opportunistic and pragmatic sire to attract younger, more gay-iendly members, the current le of acturg shows the stabily of this aln and further illtrat the cel and multidirectnal bigotry that f the movement’s inty. In his book The Homo and the Negro, O’Meara says that gay whe men reprent the bt of what Wtern culture has to offer bee of their “telligence” and “bety, ” and that “Negro” reprent the worst, beg pable of “achievement.